I painted this Rusk box. It is the perfect size to hide the
(ugly) rusk box. Admittedly I bought the box at a craft store and just painted
it to suit my own personal style.
I used a gift tag to size and trace a contact paper sized
tag which I then cut out and placed on the box. I also used my punch to punch
holes in the scrap pieces of contact paper and used the circle confetti parts
to stick on the box as the “ribbon” of the tag.
I stained the box with a rosewood colored wood stain and
waited the appropriate amount of time for it to dry. I then pulled off the
contact paper tags and “ribbon”.
I then sized and traced a smaller tag onto contact paper and
cut out the inside of it to form a stencil. I placed the contact paper on the
box, making sure the cut out sections fit nicely into the wooden tag parts
already there. Any areas not covered with contact paper I covered up with
masking tape.
On the one side of the box and on one of the tags I then
placed stickers to read “rusks” as I would use the box most often for those. I
placed the stickers within the area not covered by the contact paper. I left the other tag free of stickers so that
when I was done painting I could write the flavor of the rusks on it. The
other side of the box I left free from stickers for when I used the box for
anything other than rusks.
Once all that was done, and I was sure that all the areas of
the box that I did not want painted with chalkboard paint was covered, I spray painted
the box with chalkboard paint. I gave it two coats but it’s probably best to
read the instructions of your spray-paint if you are going to give this project
a try.
When I was done painting but before the paint completely
dried I pulled off the contact paper and stickers. The nice chalkboard tags
were left behind with one of them already labelled rusks.
I left this box to completely dry and then waited a few more
days to make sure that the paint smell was gone. I did not paint the inside of
the box but I wanted to make sure that I would have not the ugly paint fumes
seeping through to my rusks. Now I just place my favourite store bought rusk
box into my nicely painted box and keep it on the kitchen counter; right next
to the kettle for easy and pretty access for when I want coffee and biscuits.
